Comedy

Is This the Dumbest Health Care Law?

This is why your town can’t get a hospital.

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Andrew Heaton with a hospital behind him. | ReasonTV
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If you want to open a hospital, you have to convince the government that there's a need for it. And all of the existing hospitals—your potential competitors—get to show up at the hearing and explain why, actually, there's no real need.

When you have to ask your competitors for permission to open a business, don't expect to get it. 

Andrew Heaton is a producer at Reason. He is the author of, most recently, Tribalism Is Dumb: Where It Came From, How It Got so Bad, and What To Do About It.